Religious Studies

Samuel L. Voo examines certain types of allusions called »composite allusions« in the Fourth Gospel and compares these to similar phenomena in other ancient Jewish literature. The author employs methods from three different sub-fields: literary criticism, ancient Jewish exegesis, and ancient media criticism.

While past scholarship has emphasized graphic imagery, Matthew Michael engages in the soundscape of the book of Revelation. Blending biblical studies with sound theory, he shows the strategic use of sound, noise, and weeping scenes in challenging Rome's power and the re-imagination of a new world.

What we know as the Holy Land is not merely the biblical land. The contributions to this volume demonstrate how it - perhaps even more than through biblical texts - was created by extracanonical traditions of texts, rituals, and material culture.

The Pericope Adulterae (John 7,53-8,11) has long puzzled scholars due to its contested textual status. Rayan J. Lobo shows that it can nonetheless be read meaningfully within its literary context as part of the Gospel of John - as a wisdom tale rooted in oral tradition and a Jewish trial of Jesus that summarizes John 7-8.